XBPS 0.10.0 released

[Juan RP]

After 3 months of active development (well, not quite) a new major
XBPS version has
been released: 0.10.0. Release notes:

* Fixed issue 11 "xbps-bin fails to update properly some pkgs".
http://code.google.com/p/xbps/issues/detail?id=11

* xbps-bin(8): the 'check' target now is able to detect if a package
was installed manually and other packages are currently depending
on it and change its mode to "automatic", i.e as dependency of
those
packages.

* xbps-bin(8), xbps-repo(8): the -C flag now expects a path to a
directory where the configuration files (conf.plist and
repositories.plist) are stored.

* New configuration scheme for virtual packages as defined in
http://code.google.com/p/xbps/issues/detail?id=12

XBPS now reads all plist files in PREFIX/etc/xbps/
virtualpkg.d.wants
directory with settings for the wanted virtual packages.

* New configuration scheme as defined in
http://code.google.com/p/xbps/issues/detail?id=12

A directory to store XBPS configuration files is now used, by
default
set to PREFIX/etc/xbps. Configuration options are now set via
conf.plist, and repositories in repositories.plist.

* It is possible now to reinstall packages that provide virtual
packages
and put it back the original package, such as jpeg <-> libjpeg-
turbo
multiple times, without loosing important objects set when the
original package was installed, i.e reverse dependencies and
automatic installation. This is a requisite to really make a system
that can be fully customizable and restored back to its original
state with the virtual packages feature.

* Fixed issue 10 "HTTP repositories in non standard HTTP port
currently segfault".
You can now use any HTTP server in non standard ports, such as:

http://yourhost:8080/your/repo

* xbps-bin(8): the 'check' target now detects broken symlinks and
marks
them as critical errors.

* libxbps: when updating packages, only files that have been modified
(compared to current installed file) are now unpacked. This should
save some writes to storage and make the process a bit smoother as
well.

* Moved install transaction code to libxbps. The API has been
extended
with xbps_transaction_commit() which expects the transaction
dictionary
as its argument. This function will execute transaction tasks, like
removing, updating, installing and configuring packages as defined
in the transaction dictionary.

* The 'cachedir' option in configuration file now can be changed to
be relative to the rootdir if the first character is not '/'. The
-c flag in xbps-bin(8) still expects a full path and if set,
overrides
the setting in configuration file.

* xbps-bin(8): the 'show', 'show-deps' and 'show-revdeps' targets now
work with virtual packages.

* libxbps: fixed NetBSD's dewey matching code to properly identify
that a version X.Y.Z should be greater than X.Y_Z.

* libxbps: revamped virtual package handling. The public API find
functions (xbps_find_pkg_*) don't know anything about virtual
packages.
To find virtual packages the xbps_find_virtualpkg_* functions must
be
used instead of the "classic" ones.

* libxbps: the xbps_find_foo_in_array functions have been renamed
to xbps_match_foo_in_array because its task is only matching
against
the provided package name, package pattern or string.

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